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~ The jogging woman with her iPod who smiled at me as she passed me on the sidewalk.
~ Missing the shuttle bus by one minute. The walk to campus turned out to be fantastic with the crisp air, bright blue sky, and the brilliant fall colors.
~ The fellow shopper at the grocery store who was [...]

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Profiles to add to the Seven Up documentary series:

When Barack Obama was 6 years old, he was the only foreign child in his neighborhood in Jakarta, Indonesia. He didn’t know the kids, didn’t speak the language. At first the locals were a little freaked out, says Zulfin Adi, 47, who as a kid lived a [...]

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I’ve been waiting for Barack Obama to address that one damaging misstep he made early on in an otherwise masterfully run campaign. Skewered endlessly for his comment “they cling to their guns and religion,” Obama explains “why that whole ‘bittergate’ episode was so bitter” for him:
“How [the episode] was interpreted in the press [...]

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This weekend a friend extended an invitation to an informal party — a gathering to write postcards to undecided women voters in Ohio. Our host, a filmmaker who grew up in Ohio but who now lives only a couple of blocks from me, had called the Obama campaign to see how she might help [...]

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Alán’s direct translations from Spanish are endearing–and sometimes make me chuckle. One of my favorites arises in his usual question once the autumn nights bring cooler temperatures: “Where’s my pants top?” he asks. Complete sweatsuits are called “los pants” in Spanish, so logically in English, sweats are comprised of a “pants top” [...]

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